CONCERNING OSTEOPOROSIS

knowledge, attitude and preventive practice of women concerning osteoporosis

background: to determine the knowledge, attitude and preventive practice of women above 45 years old. methods: a total of 770 households in kerman (southern iran) were selected for inclusion in the study using cluster sam pling from april through august 2005. the interview schedule consisted of 4 parts including questions about knowledge, atti tude and practice (kap) and also demographic questi...

Osteoporosis

استئوپروز، وضعیتی سیستمیک از کاهش کلی در توده یا دانسیته استخوان است که در آن تخریب استخوانی سریعتر از تشکیل آن می باشد. این عارضه که بیماری استخوان شکننده نیز نامیده می شود، فرایندی غیر قابل تغییر است که در آن استخوان ها به علت کاهش دانسیته در معرض شکستگی قرار می گیرند. میزان شیوع این عارضه یک نفر از هر ۴ زن و یک نفر از هر ۱۲ مرد می باشد، که در زنان بعد از یائسگی تا ۳۳ درصد افزایش می یابد و به...

Comparison of three different osteoporosis risk assessment tools: ORAI (osteoporosis risk assessment instrument), SCORE (simple calculated osteoporosis risk estimation) and OST (osteoporosis self-assessment tool)

  Background :SCORE, OST and ORAI risk assessment tools could reduce the cost burden of BMD tests by selecting the high risk patients to osteoporosis. In this study we compared the ability of these risk assessment measures to assess probability of the osteoporosis among post-menopausal women.   Methods : 211 post-menopausal women aged 45-88 years enrolled into the study. All of the patients und...

Osteoporosis in Iran

Concerning Inoculation

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